PMO

Are you a Project Management Officer looking for a new challenge?

We are looking for a new Project Management Officer to join our well-established project team within the Aerospace, defence, and Security sector of Sopra Steria.

In this role, you will play a vital role ensuring delivery of the programme of work, by providing support functions to the programme team and the Client. This includes planning and coordinating meetings, minute taking, project controls, RAIDO, Scheduling,supporting the PM, Client Director and the wider team including the Client.

You will also be required to demonstrate the ability to work to tight deadline, prioritising tasks combined with being a team player.

Additionally, you will foster a culture with knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, demonstrating adaptability and commitment to supporting others across the team in delivering a high-quality service.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

As a key member of the project team, you should have excellent communication skills, allowing you to maintain relationships with your client, your team and Sopra Steria ADS, and to communicate progress, potential issues and risks to inform the project team.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Provide direction, guidance and assistance to project / programme teams to ensure that appropriate governance and controls are in place and the standard processes and procedures are adhered to.
- Hold owners accountable for their commitments and conduct project team meetings to provide status updates and identify / resolve issues.
- Complete governance assurance health checks to ensure that all projects are being completed within the agreed time, within approved budget and are meeting high quality standards.
- Support the Project/Programme/Portfolio managers and head of PMO.
- Manage the Project Co-Ordinators.
- Participate in sales campaigns to demonstrate support office capability to clients.
- Define the detailed scope and deliverables for the support office with both internal and external clients.
- Understand business requirements as they relate to relevant sectors, customers and key service offerings.
- Establish PMO budgets and gain acceptance for cost and where appropriate revenue and margin targets and manage assigned resources to these parameters.
- Produce accurate forecasts of future support office performance and report on variance against forecast.
- Deliver services in accordance with agreed scope, acceptance criteria, time, financial and quality measures, managing contractual arrangements for the support office services to external clients.
- Work with the Project Manager and / or Planning to support the assembly and update of project or service plans, escalating deviations from published plans.
- Assemble and update key documentation e.g. Management Handbook, Quality Plans, Tailoring Matrix, Service Definition Document, Project Definition Document
- Support the Sales, Bid and Delivery teams via the provision of outline project approaches and plans, background information and basic analyses of risk and return.
- Assist in the management of risks, issues and change, raising awareness of risks to ensure cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues.
- Compile delivery governance reports and project/programme reports.
- Ensures that delivery methods and tools are used in a manner consistent with the project environment.
- Provide management services to support project/service delivery.
- Administer, support and ensure quality standards are maintained within the project for all stakeholders.
- Provider support activities including, but not limited to:

- Meeting coordination and organisation, including scheduling, minute taking and action tracking.
- Coordination of site visits (Client and Internal) and associated risk assessments.
- Identification of, and adherence to, Client processes where applicable.
- Ensure effective client engagement and stakeholder management for project/service delivery.
- Complete assignment reviews at agreed periods or points in the project life cycle.

**What you’ll bring**:

- Demonstrated team leadership capability
- IT services background
- Relevant sector experience
- SC Clearance
- Must be willing to proceed with DV Clearance if required

**It would be great if you had**:

- DV Clearance
- Undertake assignment and / or line management of PMO team members
- Establish and lead PMOs of various sizes
- ADS experience
- P3O Practitioner, or AIPMO, or House of PMO
- SAFE, Execview, ProjectView and iQ

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

**Employment Type**:Full-time
**Location**:
**Security Clearance Level**:
**Internal Recruiter**:Hemel Hempstead
**Salary**:Up to £44,000

**Benefits**:25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

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Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, deliveringexceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety
- and security-critical markets.